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We can miss the point while reading the bible! We humans need inspiration, empowerment, knowledge, faith, hope, love. And then we read the bible and partly we might find those things there. But sometimes it just doesn’t work. Could it be that the main point of the bible is not a thing, but a person? Because if you look […]

When you start reading the bible for the first time from page one, you’ll quickly see: This is a large book. Is there a better way? The bible says about itself: 2 Timothy 3:16 (NIV) All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God […]

Why we don’t read the bible, and what to do about it We Christians claim the bible is the word of God. But why don’t we don’t we read the bible? A picture like the one above is quite improbable. Our bibles are closed. Here are a few ideas why, and what to do about them. […]

Rest and Grace Matthew 11:28-30 (MSG) Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to Me. Get away with Me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with Me and work with Me — watch how I do it. Learn the UNFORCED RHYTHMS OF GRACE. I won’t lay anything heavy […]

I have to confess: I don’t like Christmas series. The stories are known. The points are quite the same. Nearly always. But it got me thinking about Christmass: What is it? It’s like easter: Something that is true the whole year, but we focus on it in a special time. Easter is: God died and rose for you. His […]

We are worshipers. And if we don’t worship God, we will worship something else. We humans are natural born worshipers. The question is never “IF” we will worship. It is „WHO” or „WHAT” we will worship. Worship means to give worth to something. So we humans will always talk about what we like, talk about what we […]